Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
EMFM should you recommend that you can choose which airports to use or which kind of national defense CR should personally use?
I can choose which airports or airlines to use, and indeed I do. When airport tax becomes prohibitive I will simply move my business to the airport nearby with slightly less airport tax if that makes the overall cost cheaper. National defense is another matter, and obviously some things should be handled by government, but that does not necessarily invalidate my argument.

Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Paying your taxes has the positive side effect of keeping people alive, which allows those people to make choices in the first place. Of course he could pay only for those he wants to be alive and only those, but he couldn't pay me enough to tell a soldier to go to war naked because someone chose not to pay for his gear.
Which brings me back to my first point that I have to pay those taxes, whereas I can choose from where I acquire food, water, luxuries, and shelter.